Review of porters-handbook changes

Stijn Hoop stijn at win.tue.nl
Sun Aug 17 06:46:08 UTC 2003


Hi,

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 05:28:19PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> Can someone review the attached diff to the porter's handbook?  It was
> submitted by Sergey Matveychuk <sem at ciam.ru> for some of the recent
> ports infrastructure changes.  It is technically accurate, and I fixed a
> few grammar and spelling nits, but I would like a doc committers take on
> it before committing.  Also, if one of you would rather commit, that's
> fine.  Thanks!

Spotted this:

> --- doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml	10 Aug 2003 20:34:31 -0000	1.319
> +++ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml	16 Aug 2003 21:24:46 -0000
> @@ -3019,6 +3019,17 @@
>        </sect2>
>      </sect1>
>  
> +      <sect1 id="conflicts">
> +        <title><makevar>CONFLICTS</makevar></title>
> +
> +        <para>If your package cannot coexist with other packages
> +	  (because of file conflicts, runtime incompatibility, etc.), list 
> +	  the other package names in the <makevar>CONFLICTS</makevar> variable. 
> +	  You can use shell globs like <literal>*</literal> and 
> +	  <literal>?</literal> here.
> +	</para>
> +      </sect1>
> +

Maybe you should clarify whether you want the package names as they are
installed in /var/db/pkg, or the form 'category/port' (I'm wondering myself
right now).

I'm not a doc-person so no further review, sorry...

--Stijn

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